Christmas Quote by Neil Warnock

You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good…

— Mark Noble

You know what to expect whenever it comes around Christmas time, that you might not be able to see your friends or see your…

— Scott McTominay

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but…

— Mark Noble

My family are agricultural workers. They worked all year round, barely a week off, so I was taught to appreciate the life of a…

— Darren Fletcher

Over the summer, you do have to take that time to relax and go on holiday with your mates and get away from football.

— Ben Chilwell

In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.

— Samir Nasri

When you spend five years somewhere, and go through pretty much everything you can with a football club, it was special.

— Mile Jedinak

The biggest thing I miss because of football is that I really, really love to go on a skiing holiday but as long as…

— Nicklas Bendtner

This is what footballers are used to. You're used to playing matches throughout the Christmas period so for us it doesn't feel weird. We're…

— Robert Snodgrass

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

— Mats Hummels

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

— Peyton Hillis

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the…

— Jimmy Hill